Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas Broken Glass Jello

I have a thing for Jello. I've loved it since I was a kid. It was early "cooking" - hey, you learn how to measure water and stir! And patience as you waited for the Jello to set. So, I wanted to make a Christmas-themed Jello dish.

And...the oven died or is very sick. It's getting a check up now, so I'm making no-bake items.

I received this beautiful dish for my birthday from my friend Jessica. And her boyfriend Andy did a great job wrapping the gift! (Andy, your bow was awesome! ;)

For the regular Broken Glass Jello, you use 4 different flavors (3 ounce boxes). For the Christmas one, I used a 6 ounce box of Raspberry and Lime. Here is the full recipe for Broken Glass Jello.

Carefully mix the blocks of Jello in a 9 x 13 pan. I have started to line my pans with a big piece of plastic wrap. This makes it so much easier! I'm able to lift out the fully set Jello onto a cutting board and cut it up. The edges have some "wrinkles" from the plastic wrap, but you can chop that off if you wish.

Let the sweetened condensed milk mixture cool a bit (or you might melt the cubed jello pieces), then pour over the cubes. I like to skim off the bubbles for a cleaner finish, but you don't have to do that.

My co-workers really like Jello too. One person walked into the break room, and shouted "Jello!!" This is a festive, no-bake, super easy recipe that spreads lots of Christmas joy! Recipe here.

Lovely! Thanks for sharing the Jello love. I live in Mexico City and Jello desserts are everywhere here. Your Christmas treats are very similar to the types of sweet snacks sold to-go at local ice cream shops. Green, red and white are the colors of the Mexican flag, so they're popular! Another traditional dessert here looks like a flower frozen in a Jello bubble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwUJ3D-eUw&feature=related

This recipe is perfect for my holiday contest to win a Foodista cookbook! It's not too late to enter. Share your delicious holiday cheer with more food-lovers! Would love for you to win :) http://ow.ly/3j61M

you're a jello fan and i'm an agar agar fan :P so that makes us sorta food cousins? lol.can i just say how amazing these broken glass jello look? i've not seen anything quite like it before! def the most x'masy looking food i've seen these days!

Thanks so much for this recipe. I made it for my office Holiday Open House, and it was a hit. Everyone thought it was not only cute but very tasty as well. I can't wait to experiment with some of the other Jello recipes.

@Ashley and Brett Dear Ashley and Brett (#38), Please see this post where I made it into a bundt pan (http://www.foodlibrarian.com/2011/11/broken-glass-jello-bundt-day-24-of-food.html) You'll need to increase the unflavored gelatin to make it firmer. Good luck! - mary

I think you may be the one to help me pull this off! I am looking to create the Wisps from the movie BRAVE. And I thought blue jello would be the perfect medium. But how do I form them? Here is a link to the Wisps: http://collider.com/brave-images-wisps-witch/ If you have suggestions, I am hoping to experiment this weekend for my daughter's birthday party next weekend (6/1). I even plan to buy small blue glow sticks, clean them thoroughly, then shove them in the Jello Wisps so they glow! It think it's super cool! Just not sure how to form the Jello into a custom shape (saran wrap?. Thanks so much! deb